ACTION 24: The CSO will assess the legislative environment with a view to identifying the scope for additional and greater uses of statistical data, including any potential legislative changes where necessary.

DAFM working with the CSO

( Action 24 - in progress )

The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine works closely with the Central Statistics Office in the provision of Agricultural and other DAFM related statistics

The
Central Statistics Office has been reviewing the current legislative
environmentaround the production and use of official statistical
information, and also considering the potential legislative impact of a
pending amendment to EC Regulation 223/2009on European Statistics. In
addition, during 2012, senior officials from CSO met with the Data Protection
Commissioner to discuss issues around data matching and the wider usage of
the PPSN across the public service.

The
National Statistics Board have committed (December 2012) to producing a paperdescribing the landscape around the collection and usage of the PPSN by
public sector organisations, including the various legislative issues, which
will also suggest some mechanisms to overcome the difficulties that
exist.